Triple

T3613952
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alexander Stephen and Sons E76554 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Alexander Stephen
Alexander Stephen was a Scottish shipbuilder and entrepreneur best known for establishing the prominent shipbuilding firm Alexander Stephen and Sons on the River Clyde.
E374102 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Alexander Stephen | Statement: [Alexander Stephen and Sons, foundedBy, Alexander Stephen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Stephen
Context triple: [Alexander Stephen and Sons, foundedBy, Alexander Stephen]
  • A. Jefferson Davis
    Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and a leading political figure of the Southern secessionist cause.
  • B. Jefferson C. Davis
    Jefferson C. Davis was a controversial Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a U.S. Army officer involved in various Indian Wars in the American West.
  • C. James Buchanan Johnston
    James Buchanan Johnston was the adopted son and ward of Harriet Lane, the niece and de facto First Lady of U.S. President James Buchanan.
  • D. Andrew Jackson Donelson
    Andrew Jackson Donelson was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and nephew and namesake of President Andrew Jackson who served as U.S. minister to several European countries and ran for vice president in the 1856 election.
  • E. Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Alexander Stephen
Triple: [Alexander Stephen and Sons, foundedBy, Alexander Stephen]
Generated description
Alexander Stephen was a Scottish shipbuilder and entrepreneur best known for establishing the prominent shipbuilding firm Alexander Stephen and Sons on the River Clyde.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Stephen
Target entity description: Alexander Stephen was a Scottish shipbuilder and entrepreneur best known for establishing the prominent shipbuilding firm Alexander Stephen and Sons on the River Clyde.
  • A. Jefferson Davis
    Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and a leading political figure of the Southern secessionist cause.
  • B. Jefferson C. Davis
    Jefferson C. Davis was a controversial Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a U.S. Army officer involved in various Indian Wars in the American West.
  • C. James Buchanan Johnston
    James Buchanan Johnston was the adopted son and ward of Harriet Lane, the niece and de facto First Lady of U.S. President James Buchanan.
  • D. Andrew Jackson Donelson
    Andrew Jackson Donelson was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and nephew and namesake of President Andrew Jackson who served as U.S. minister to several European countries and ran for vice president in the 1856 election.
  • E. Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ad85da0ba481908b3b48c69efe2b98 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc279f6948190b9655a4cf3e77d89 completed March 8, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b43316224081909372f1007becc663 completed March 13, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4384ae2948190bb5b371ab35a9057 completed March 13, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b438db5e8c8190a6cfcbade88e7d46 completed March 13, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.